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Wave of mutilation torrent. When it comes to drum sounds, BFD and its XFL expansion pack offer unprecedented levels of detail and flexibility, totalling over 30GB of sample data. Is it overkill, or the rhythm programmer's ultimate weapon? FXpansion's BFD is a sample-based sound generator dedicated to producing authentic acoustic drum sounds, and can be operated as either a plug-in or in stand-alone mode on Mac OS X and Windows systems running hosts compatible with VSTi, DXi, RTAS, Audio Units or Rewire. Its core library is based on seven acoustic drum kits recorded at multiple velocity levels in the same sympathetic room using the same mic setup, but rather than just offering basic samples, the 14 mics around the kit are layered with user controls to allow, for example, the balance of close mics and overheads or room PZM mics to be adjusted.

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In practical terms, it's more or less the same as being in the control room with a good drum kit in the studio, where you can adjust the levels from the various mics to get the sound you want. There are also various tricks that let you try different mic placements and distances — for instance, the kick has a balance control for internal and external mics — while the core kits have up to 46 velocity layers and the optional XFL expander kits even more. A library of standard kits is included, but the way BFD is managed allows you to take individual drums from one kit and put them in another (toms always come as a set) and to tune individual drums. On top of that, there are MIDI drum grooves that can be imported into your songs to drive BFD, and also a self-contained groove mode where different grooves are assigned to different keyboard keys, rather like the Groove Menus in Spectrasonics' Stylus.

According to FXpansion, BFD should work under Windows 98SE and Me, but they only officially support its use under Windows 2000 and XP, and of course Mac OS X. You will need a fairly powerful computer with plenty of RAM and hard drive space to run BFD: Windows users should be looking at a PIII equivalent or faster, while Mac users need a G4 733MHz or above.

Before getting deeper into the way the plug-in looks and works, it is worth examining the way in which the original drums were recorded. A variety of well known mics including the Sennheiser MD421, Neumann KM81 and M49, Electro-voice RE20, AKG C451 and Shure SM57 were used as the close mics. These were apparently amplified via custom-modified API preamps. As with a real studio-recorded kit, each drum was picked up by a number of mics at the same time, and AKG C12s were used as overheads via Summit MPC 100A tube preamps, while the room ambience was captured using Neumann U87s through Avalon preamps. In addition, a pair of Crown PZM microphones was set up at floor level and compressed via an Empirical Labs Distressor. The room ambience that you hear is all from the natural recording space, and to capitalise on this, there is control over the distance of the room mics from the kit, and the width of their stereo field.

I'm not sure whether this was achieved using multiple mics or by simply delaying one pair of room mics, but it works well enough and the amount of ambience can be adjusted on a per-drum basis rather than globally. The mixer section where the kit sounds and mics are balanced also has dedicated controls to set the balance between mics positioned inside and outside the kick drum, and above and below the snare drum. The core library contains only seven kits, but these are sampled in heroic detail. The snare hits include straight hits, flams, drags, rims and sidesticks, while the hi-hats include closed and half-open using the stick tip and shank, open played with the stick tip, and pedal closure.

Suitable muting modes are employed to give natural-sounding hi-hat playing. When you look at the number of miked layers and the number of velocity layers, it soon becomes apparent why a 9GB library is needed to do justice to a relatively small collection of drum kits. Where the host software supports it (and most of the popular sequencers do), each individual microphone buss and each individual dry (close-miked) drum sound can be routed to separate physical outputs for further processing. Modified kits and mixer settings may be saved in a user library and further kits can be added from the XFL expander library, increasing the basic 9GB library by a further 22GB, adding a greater range of cymbals, brushed kits, snares, tambourines and so on. BFD makes a wonderful drum sound module for anyone who needs to capture the real miked acoustic kit sound, but for those less gifted in the percussion department, it also comes with a large library of 'Grooves' in a number of styles.